Because if there's a God coming from another God then that God was not the beginning, and I'm defining God as the beginning. I mean, I don't care what Mormons believe but SEMANTICALLY how is the Mormon still God.
2007-10-11 07:29:02 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I understand your point, but I could define God as the a man in a black suit and tie. How then Semantically is the Catholic God still God?
Edit: To be more serious, maybe God isn't a being, but a title. The title has been around from the beginning, if you want to look at it that way.
2007-10-11 07:38:45 · answer #1 · answered by Senator John McClain 6 · 8⤊ 2⤋
Perhaps the problem here is that we assume time is linear, which it doesn't appear to be.
God was god from the beginning......of what??? It doesn't really specify, does it.
With all of our math, physics, computers, etc, we still don't really understand time.....do you think the Bible was a good place for God to explain all of that to people?
There are some questions that we will probably never have the answers to because of our inability to understand them. Try to explain to a 1 year old the reasons for not crawling in the road. It's a waste of time. They're not going to get it, no matter how many times or how well you explain it.
We assume that we know so much. Now look at God as the parent, and all of us as the 1 year old babies who think the road looks fun.
Can you comprehend something having no beginning? No end? Doesn't make sense to my brain, let alone the origin of God.
I'm content not understanding that for another 1000 or so years.
2007-10-12 15:11:00 · answer #2 · answered by Ender 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
In our temporal and very limited experience everything must have a beginning and an end, but logically that can't be true. For that to be true everything must have been caused by something else, which means that something must have preceded everything. It's the chicken and egg question all over again. It is just as convenient to say that God simply always existed as it is to say that there has been an eternal chain of omnipotent and omnitient being and an eternal process of creating such and becoming such.
2007-10-12 17:14:01 · answer #3 · answered by atomzer0 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He is the beginning, and the end- for us. We have never had another God, nor will we ever. He is the start of our universe, or our lives, and of everything we have. How is that not the beginning? I could argue semantics with you all day, it wouldn't matter what I said, you could turn it around. I don't think you really want to know the answer. If you do, check out this website. It might help you.
2007-10-11 14:51:34 · answer #4 · answered by odd duck 6 · 7⤊ 1⤋
I just want to address what Oregon Flower said...
WE do not believe we will EVER take the place of our God, ever. THAT is what Lucifer wanted, to receive all the glory and power and take the place of God, Jesus Christ said "glory be to thee Father"... see the difference there???
Also - we do not believe we will all get to be gods. People make it sound like we just think "ok, I'm a Mormon, I get to be a god". No. We aren't really even taught that. We assume that since God is our Father and in fact is a "god", and He wants us to become like him, that we have that possibility... I think it will take eons and eons of time, it's not just going to be a "change" and there ya go. I don't even think everyone in the Celestial Kingdom will have the opportuinity. We will have the chance to progress in all things and that will include power, dominion, and family.
People need to just get over the whole "we get to be gods" thing.
2007-10-12 13:08:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
God is our Heavenly Father and it was his power which created this world, and it is His plan that we are here on earth to follow. Which part of this does not describe the God you believe in?
2007-10-13 17:57:43 · answer #6 · answered by moonman 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Do you even know what we word semantic means?
Anyway, God is not the beginning, there is no beginning because time always was and always will be. There is a beginning of our world, which God created, but there is no beginning.
2007-10-11 14:50:27 · answer #7 · answered by Love Yahoo!!! is a prince 3 · 6⤊ 3⤋
He really isn't. That is one of the problems I have with the Mormon church. The God of the Bible is sinless and eternal. The one thing that this God does not know is His equal (Isa 44)
2007-10-13 09:25:40 · answer #8 · answered by Buzz s 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Where in the world did you hear THAT from???
Been LDS (Mormon is only a nickname) since I was born and I have NEVER heard that one!!!!
Thanks for the good laugh!
2007-10-11 20:30:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Our God is the same God as every other religion. I don't understand what you are getting at,
2007-10-11 15:49:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋